Colour mixing for our wonderful wings
Last week, we learned to mix two primary colours to make a secondary colour. So, this week we used this knowledge to design and paint our wings only using two primary and two secondary colours.
We had lots of (messy) fun! We used strong blues, mixed greens…
and orange and purple…
shades of red using white …
and more blues and greens.
Finding our feet!
This week, children have really begun to find their feet in Nursery! They’ve enjoyed re-visiting their favourite areas to play and are finding new places to explore as well.
Outside, we had lots of fun rolling apples down the guttering and we enjoyed painting in the rain. The musical instruments were also popular; children made lots of loud noises on the pans and enhoyed using the percussion instruments whilst singing ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’.
In the Rainbow room, children began to work together to build towers and create homes for some of the animals using the wooden blocks.
We’ve introduced snack time this week and children enjoyed tucking into their toast each morning and having some milk. Thank you to everyone who has already paid. If you haven’t sent your snack payment yet, please do so by Friday 02 October.
Lots of children stayed for their first lunch at Nursery this week. They all did really well and enjoyed eating their packed lunch or trying something new from their grab bag.
For now, we have kept the toys and provision available for children to play with the same as it was on their first visit. This helps them to feel settled and secure as they return to familiar surroundings each day. As children are becoming more settled now, over the next week, we’ll gradually begin to make a few changes. We’ll adapt our provision to follow the interests that children have shown so far and we’ll share these changes with you next week!
Reminders
- Please send in your snack payment, if you haven’t already. Thank you.
- Remember to send your child in a warm, waterproof coat everyday and make sure they have some wellies at Nursery. If your child comes to Nursery in wellies, please make sure they have a pair of shoes to change into when inside.
- We try to develop independence at Nursery, especially when children are putting on their own shoes. Please try to avoid laces and send children in shoes that they can attempt to fasten themselves (eg Velcro).
5/6B Certificate Celebration
Another great week goes by in 5/6B. Here are our certificate winners for this week:
For great living and learning skills…
Hannah – You always show a responsible attitude to your learning. You are the first in the classroom with your learning book open to complete a task. You are always ready and you are prepared to take a safe risk by putting your hand up. You are a fantastic role model to all pupils – keep it up!
For sport and physical activity…
Chelsea – You showed good knowledge of being tactical during our PE games this week. You are a great team player who is always looking for ways to improve and develop. Well done, Chelsea!
For great learning…
Daniel T – You are always responsible and reflective with your learning. You manage to complete all tasks required, you respond to feedback appropriately and you are always active within the classroom. Super stuff, Daniel!
1,2V Celebration certificates
We’ve had an other great week with lots of learning, being active and having fun with our friends.
As we can’t have our usual celebration assembly on a Friday at the moment, we will be posting the certificate winners on here each week for each class.
For great learning…
Lorien – for super work in English, especially reading aloud to the whole class.
For sport and physical activity…
Dylan – for amazing resilience learning how to skip.
For living and learning…
Etta – for being so thoughtful. You always look for ways to help others. Thank you!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
Year 5/6 S have had another great week. They’ve had a busy week designing and creating cereal boxes, using relative clauses in their writing and classifying animals in Science. It’s been another tough decision this week to choose my certificate winners.
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Paige- you are joining in so much more in lessons now and putting a lot of effort into all your learning. Well done and keep it up.
For sport and physical activity…
Alfie – you always join in PE with energy and enthusiasm and you always have a smile on your face. Well done!
For living and learning…
Jessica- you contributed so well during the lessons this week. You gave some great examples of which 8Rs you use in your learning.
Well done everyone!
Celebration Certificates 1KN
It’s been another great week in 1KN. We’ve done lots of great learning in and out of the classroom.
For great learning:
Teddy – For such a great effort with your writing this week.
For living and learning:
Jenson – You are an active learner and participate well in our lessons.
For sport and physical activity:
Roma – For great concentration and effort in Yoga this week.
5/6M Celebration
For living and learning skills… Seth, you are a responsible learner. You answer question and listen carefully to others. You take pride in all your work .
For sport and physical activity… Emily, you were a fantastic partner in our tennis game. You were supportive and showed good control with the ball.
For great learning… Michaela, your cereal box design is fantastic. The jungle theme is a great concept. Well done.
Phonics Fun and Zero Heroes!
Reception have been AMAZING in their first ‘carpet time’ learning sessions this week.
We’ve been playing listening games in phonics. We listened for sounds in the environment by going on a ‘sound walk’ outside and tried our best to hear the same sounds in rhyming words, by playing ‘Silly Soup’. Yesterday, our classroom ‘Everywhere Bear’ used toy-talk to sound out some words for us to blend.
Ask your child if they can show you one of the phonics games we have been playing this week.
In maths this week our focus number is zero. It’s really important that children understand the ‘value’ of zero. As the Numberblocks told us:
“When there’s nothing there to count and none is the amount”
The children have been super speedy at understanding that that to get to zero, we “take it all away” or there is nothing to begin with. We’ve been making some funny zero number stories together too!
The class really enjoyed our Numberblocks video this week. If you’d like to access these at home, all of the episodes are available to watch on BBC iPlayer
Please continue to send us news of your child’s interests and learning at home:
scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Living and learning – 8Rs for learning
We have been talking about the Eight Rs for learning.
Out current class novel, After The Fall (by Dan Santat), enabled us to talk about resilience and how it’s important to keep on trying and not give up, even when things are tough. Our Talk Time homework also enabled children to share when they had shown resilience.
I never give up when I’m skipping.
I showed resilience when I did the crossbar challenge. It’s hard to hit the crossbar with the football.
I showed resilience learning to ride my bike without stabilisers.
Science – habitat hunt
We have had some great science lessons and discussions this week, learning all about habitats. The children enjoyed exploring our school habitat and we found some amazing animals : birds, bees, flies, caterpillars, woodlice, centipedes, worms and butterflies.
Can you spot the robin in this photo?